John A. Farrell

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Now on Sale - Ted Kennedy: A Life - The Top Ten finalist for the National Book Award for the best American non-fiction of 2022 





A "Best Book of 2022" - The New Yorker

One of "The Hundred Must Read Books of 2022" - TIME 


 
 
 
 
 

The Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Richard Nixon: The Life


 
 
                                                 
The New York Times bestseller that won the PEN America award for the best biography of the year, and the New-York Historical Society book prize for the best volume of American history. 

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

"Excellent and penetrating" - Bob Woodward

"The best treatment" - Peggy Noonan


      "John A. Farrell narrates this story with punch and insight...the best one-volume, cradle-to-grave biography that we could expect about such a famously elusive subject. By employing recently released government documents and oral histories, he adds layers of understanding to a complex man and his dastardly decisions." 

                                                                                         -- The Washington Post


     "Confirmation of Nixon's meddling in Johnson’s peace efforts is the … news that “Richard Nixon” breaks. But startling revelations are hardly the only criterion for a good Nixon biography. He’s an electrifying subject, a muttering Lear, of perennial interest to anyone with even an average curiosity about politics or psychology. The real test of a good Nixon biography ... is far simpler: Is it elegantly written? And, even more important, can it tolerate paradoxes and complexity, the spikier stuff that distinguishes real-life sinners from comic-book villains? The answer, in the case of “Richard Nixon,” is yes, on both counts."

                                                                                         -- The New York Times 


     "A tale that presents Nixon from boyhood to senator, power broker and president, in all of his complexity and contradiction."

                                                                                         -- The Pulitzer citation




Exceptionally relevant in the age of Trump. 

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Read in The New York Times  how Richard Nixon covertly worked to scuttle Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam peace initiative in 1968 - and how fellow historians hailed the discovery.